24. Also we inform you that it shall not be lawful to impose tribute, custom, or toll, on any of the priests, Levites, singers, gatekeepers, temple servants, or labourers of this house of God.
25. You, Ezra, according to the wisdom of your God that is in your hand, appoint magistrates and judges, who may judge all the people who are beyond the River, who all know the laws of your God; and teach him who doesn’t know them.
26. Whoever will not do the law of your God and the law of the king, let judgement be executed on him with all diligence, whether it is to death, or to banishment, or to confiscation of goods, or to imprisonment.
27. Blessed be the Lord, the God of our fathers, who has put such a thing as this in the king’s heart, to beautify the Lord’s house which is in Jerusalem;
28. and has extended loving kindness to me before the king and his counsellors, and before all the king’s mighty princes. I was strengthened according to the Lord my God’s hand on me, and I gathered together chief men out of Israel to go up with me.